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Thank you Niall. It’s so refreshing to have a YT gardener be candid about their failures as well as their successes. It gives us novice gardeners hope! It’s also nice to see a veg garden that’s a more relatable size. And great that we’re seeing it at your planning stages rather than as a finished product. Thank you so much.
Hi Niall! I would move the asparagus to it's "forever home" where it can get settled, happy and prolific hopefully, and you will gain 2 beds for something else fabulous now!
@@niallgardens Same! I'm just bolstering myself to do exactly that. My raspberries from the bed over have invaded the asparagus and it is time for the move. Be strong Niall and do what needs to be done! 💪👍
I say move them. Every years you’re going to stare at the asparagus and wish they were somewhere else… just get it over with. I’ll add… I had a 2x2 clump of asparagus that I had haphazardly planted in my raised beds once… they grew amazingly well but I realized they got so big they were in the way.. well, I just moved it to my permanent asparagus location,,, I dug up a LARGE Root ball…. Very heavy.. I dragged it onto a tarp and dragged it across the yard. I dug a large hole a big as the root ball and plopped it in… it’s thriving in its new location like it didn’t even notice it was moved. It only lost about 3-4 spears at first but a week later it’s fine. :) just move the asparagus! And try to get as much of the root ball as you can. Rooting for you! :)
Good morning, Niall, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸 Beautiful privacy hedge in the Cherry Laurel. And your garden is coming along. You and Kenny are going to stay busy this year. Life is getting back to normal 👍
Hi Peggy! Hope all's well with you over in Florida! Life really is getting back to normal, and the garden is getting back to normal too - phew! What's happening in your garden at the minute?
@Niall Gardens I did a short video last week on my Bougainvillea in full bloom and what's going on in the front yard. My backyard is alive and well and I have Red Clover as a ground cover along Juicy Fruit Island 🏝 The Moringa Plants survived the 3 "freezes" we had. (a few hours of 31° F and we are all in a panic) I'm getting some seeds going and keeping up on 6 Worm bins and Harvesting 🪱 Castings 💩 I hope you and Kenny are doing well 💓
Aaaahhhhh !!! Please cover all that bare soil of yours …… cardboard or leaves or thin layer grass clippings or woodchips or compost or any other mulch ….. your soils crying out for some cover now and especially once the days start heating up and getting longer !! Woohooo bring on warm spring and a lovely even summer
Great advice all around, Niall! And just hearing you tak about failures, successes and realities gives me a chance to ponder some stuff I've been doing in the veg garden as well. As for the aspargus, you're really the one who knows best. The one who's living in that garden, that knows what those beds would be used for if they didn't have aspargus in them and where the aspargus would be moved to. Not knowing mush, my instict would be to move the aspargus of one of the beds and keep the other one, at least until you get a harvest from the one you moved. Then you'd move the second one. But that's just my instinct. If that wouldn't work for you, then maybe just take them out of both beds. Hopefully you'll live much more than two years, so what is a two year delay in aspargus growing when you have a lifetime? It's nothing! And you're a gardener, so like all gardeners you probably gained a lot of patience over the years! :D
Hi Niall, I had the same problem with my broad beans I’m in North Cornwall and we were hit by an unusually hard frost which killed all my beans that were growing really well, so I resowed them in the greenhouse and when they were large enough I planted them out under a fleece cage and they are doing brilliantly now, I also sowed some really early peas and planted them in the same way and they are doing fantastically well , so there is always another way in gardening. I don’t have any ideas about your Asparagus, I love it but don’t have the space in my garden, however I’d be inclined to leave it where it is and try to get a harvest , you could always plant some more crowns in the right place but would have something to be enjoying in the meantime. I really enjoyed the tour of your beautiful veg garden , I’m really envious.
Hi Niall! Your raised beds are looking great! I love the layout! A little failure every now and then is quite normal for us gardeners.....a way to learn. 😊I just cut off my cherry laurel last year and will try to dig out most of the roots soon. My problem .....it self seeded every year and I had to pull the seedlings out....hundreds of them every year.
Hello Niall...I would leave the asparagus alone because it has developed strong roots. I love your vertical growing potential. Those netting structures are very attractive. I've subscribed. Looking forward to this new season. Every year will be different!
If you decide to move the asparagus best to wait till it has died back in late autumn. At that time you may also be Abel to divide them and increase your plants for the future.
Hi Niall I love your videos. Firstly, with this cold snap coming I would cover your vulnerable crops with some fleece. Regarding your asparagus, as you have quite a bit of land I would leave them where they are and enjoy a good crop for the next couple of years and start new beds. You will be able to intercrop with herbs like parsley, coriander and basil and some annual bee loving flowers. I had a similar situation to you on my allotment and grew a variety called Colossal from seed. This year I get to eat it and can’t wait. Which was the asparagus variety that you grew from seed? I am still loving my hot box composter that I made from your video - it’s brilliant, thank you so much Niall.
Your garden is beautiful. Very nicely laid out. I hope you will be growing some kind of Vining flower, or a vegetable up over those arches. I don’t think you should move your asparagus. It is a great nutritious crop and as you said, you will be setting yourself back a couple of years.
Fruit bushes with asparagus, interesting... Liz used to put them with strawberries. Also from seed, a lot cheaper for sure. Hope they do well of you move them. 😊
Ah wonderful so neat and tidy. Also you grow such a lot of crops that I do. I've attempted adulcee (can't remember the spelling) beans over winter and mine are still going one or two caught the frost. It all looks wonderful thanks for the inspiration 👍💜
Hi niall! I'm a big fan of your content. I'm a permaculture veg grower in wicklow. I would consider moving one bed of asparagus now, harvest from the other, then in a year or two, move the second one. This way you could spread the impact on your yields
It would be so sad having to wait another two years to harvest, and esparagus are also so reluctant to being moved, so I agree with Ben, I would leave some in. Or even plant new ones in the new place and eat from the beds until the plants in the new place are mature. Of course that's a boring suggestion, I know you won't do that! Gardening is meant to be fun!
Hi Niall, always love your garden tours! I would keep your asparagus spears where they are and put new ones in somewhere else. Hope you have a successful gardening season!
Niall,wow,look at you,showing us your wares, so delighted for you. Inspiring me to plant up my turnips. My broad beans are still underground,and like you hope, stay under this week. I only planted asparagus this year,so I'm interested in how yours comes along. That hedge will be a bonus,and definitely better than what you had prior. The veg garden looks beautiful. No rush with the path, it will happen eventually. Psb is my fave veg, mine not ready yet either, I lost a few with the cold weather in December. Thanks for a lovely video Niall.
Hi Lorraine! Hopefully both of our sets of broad beans, yours and mine, stay put until the cold snap is over! Yeah the hedge is such an improvement, it really is. Have a super week!
@niallgardens I'm just back from my lotty, eeek mine are up, I have fleeced over, as -1 tonight, and colder tomorrow. Yup really will enhance the place that hedge.
Niall we love the garden and your videos! Keep ‘em coming regularly please! (A little shorter/concise would help keep more people interested for longer though - these younger lot you want to attract in just get a bit heavy eyed when they see 15minutes for a video…) Hook all is generations win with shorter videos and then have a selection of medium and longer ones too as great to listen to your videos and have a coffee or tea slowly enjoyed.
Honestly I would leave the asparagus where it is... you could always interplant strawberries through them making double use of the space. It is looking great though :D I never have any luck with broad beans i may try again this year though and see what happens lol
Ok, coffee sorted ☕❤️ I love the laurel hedge. I have a bush and it grows perfect as a screen, I am sure you will be happy with it 😍 The netting in your beds, what are those? I have some white plastic net, that is so stiff and hard to maneuver. I bought it as a cabbage fly net, but it is probably better for vast beds and not my small raised beds.
I'm going to experiment this year with throwing some calabrese , one plant each, into my potato grow bags. Just four plants in four bags to see if there is enough room and soil for them to thrive in one.
Great Niall.. now I'm needing to invest in some purple sprouting broccoli!! 💜🥦🤣 You're veg garden is a fantastic set up you got going and great little hedge! 🌿
Garden looks lovely. Love the Fruit Tree guild beds they will be amazing and bring so much interest to the garden. Mulch your asparagus beds and move after the Easter crop. Trimming back the brown hedge would allow more light and air into the garden. Think I see green leaves inside? Cherry laurel hedge is very pretty. Keep up the good work.
Hi Niall, I tried moving my Asparagus bed an it was a disaster. I waited 3 more years and the plants were weak and the yield was poor.. Have you thought of replanting one bed and harvesting the other. then when the new bed starts producing replant the other. ?? PS have you thought of creating "stepover apples" to go around the outer edge of your central square. ?? it would look spectacular in blossom and even better in fruit. Have a great year.......... Not Tessa......... Tessas Dad
Lovely garden tour Niall 💚 very pretty radish and turnip seedlings and the onions are growing strongly. Delighted to see you got your new hedge in, hopefully your furbabies 🐕🐕🐕 don't like to chew on the branches of shrubs as the laurel is toxic. Ours didn't seem to cause and trouble for the dogs but after chipping it I was dizzy from its fumes 😷 Beautiful plant otherwise 💚🌿 Best wishes 🤗
Thanks Maiju! You actually raise a really good point about the laurel being toxic which I forgot to mention in the video itself. Thankfully we have a separate part of the garden which is dog-proof so if the fur-babas are allowed out into the wider garden it's when we're there with them. Yeah you have to be careful transporting it in your car if you're taking clippings away - isn't that crazy?!!
@@niallgardens haven't come across another plant that sent off fumes to that extent. I actually recorded a clip for my last video about it, but while doing it our free range hens were running towards me (as they do when they spot me) and I was rushing to make sure they weren't coming to the laurel clippings to scratch around ‐ only spotted later, the video was all out of focus and had to scrap it. Cheers 🤗
I grew asparagus from seed last year but planted inside poly tunnel but want to move them outside this year, some time this month! there seems to be one spear coming up which has surprised me… hadn’t thought of cherry laurel as a hedge! we have a couple of areas need to do hedging for our privacy and have couple a couple of copper top verburnum but they look really nice!
I also grew asperges from seeds 3 years ago, I kept moving them, in the poly tunnel, then outside untill the snails came, again in the poly tunnel, then last year moved them outside and giving them lots of extra compost, I haven't been in the vegetable garden for a month, now I can't wait to check them.
Hi Niall. Great video. I would re-site one bed of asparagus, and leave one so i could crop one this year. Then move the second bed at a later date. My garden is way behind yours- no sign of my asparagus yet and the harsh winter killed off all my over wintering brassicas apart from my kalettes, which have done fantastically. Had 2 meals a week off 6 plants for the past 2 months and still more o come :-) PS wheer do you buy your net cages from - they are fabulous
I would leave the asparagus as its now established, you never know it might be really good. By moving it you could be putting it back another couple of years, in fact you may lose a plant or two, you can use that extra space to grow more veg its not like your short of space. Oh by the way I lost all my veg except the brussels sprouts in the cold snap.
So the netting and frost protection I use is from a company called Gardening Naturally. Unfortunately, they're UK based but worth checking to see if they deliver to wherever you are
Hey Niall just caught up, you're going to have some very tasty veg there. Looks great, thanks for sharing, I don't do veg, cat next door likes to use my patch as a toilet, not amused, so I just stick to my bedding plants for the summer, set from my seeds I saved from previous year. Well take care lovely vlog thanks till next time,bye 👋
Id be moving the asparagus now and I do t think it will take that long for them to settle in. Especially if you give them a huge soil ball around them. Still think wood chip over stone. In time id be tempted to do the centre square in pavers.
This is my thinking when it comes to the asparagus... I'm very tempted to make the move now. Thanks for the suggestion on the ground cover... I'm still mulling it over!
Niall, you're much younger than me so I would NOT move them. However, If I were as young as you, I would move the asparagus into the "better" location - even though it means you will set them back a couple of years. Do what is right for you AND the plants.
Great video, very informative. Can't agree with you on the cherry laurel though. Should be illegal to plant in my opinion. It is probably the most invasive plant in Ireland, with whole woodlands being taken over by it. Far better to plant something native that will help our wildlife.
I'd like to know where you source all the black tubular structures from and what is it called? It looks metal rather than plastic. Doyou bend the hoops by hand?
Omg it looks lovely your giving me so many ideas... I have 2 autistic children they love the garden I'm in the middle of creating from scratch a sensory /eatable garden as my son could eat any growing flower 😂 it's safer to plant food and eatable herbs flowers and veg. Keep these vids going thankyou from killarney x
What a fantastic idea to create that kind of garden, just fantastic! I've just written a response to you because I thought you'd asked a question, then realised you hadn't! Doh!! 😂 If you don't mind, I might leave my response here in case it's helpful to anyone else, though it sounds like you know exactly what you're doing!.... 'I'd recommend planting herbs/veg/flowers that are definitely known to be edible. That way you can let your kids enjoy the garden without the fear of them eating something that could make themselves sick. I'd also research each plant well before planting since some things are part edible/part poisonous (like Rhubarb which has edible stems but poisonous leaves). Hope this helps!'
I'm a bit confused. Last summer my purple sprouting broccoli was like 4' tall and didn't flower but I wasn't worried cuz I thought Monty Don said they don't have florets until the 2nd year.
Generally it gets sown and planted in late spring, grows a bit, then sits all winter and produces florets the next spring - I'm imagining that's what he means by the 2nd year?
After thinking on it more, the asymmetry would bother me. I would move the interior half of both beds the first year, and move the outer half the next year
The 4 apple trees are on M26 rootstock. While it's not the most dwarfing, it'll cap the trees at about 2m x 2m in height and spread. I won't grow them to that size, but I think they'll be manageable with careful pruning
@@niallgardens Thanks very much. I have a small suburban garden, so always look for small trees! This is probably a stupid question but can you keep any tree small with careful pruning?
They are actually just cheapy arches from the local discount store. I'm going to be honest and say I wouldn't recommend them because they're so so flimsy! I quite often have to straighten them up before a video!
I think there's nothing wrong with it if it's the way you'd like to go, but a few things spring to mind... You'll have to lift it each time you want to mulch your beds, you'll have to cut openings in it for your plants but when you change crop you'll need to cut more openings, depending on what you use it might stop water percolating. Saying that, I'm planning on using a cornstarch-based membrane in exactly the way you describe in my polytunnel this year.
Mother recently discovered your channel she loves to grow vegetables can you put Hindi subtitles in your videos she tried to watch your videos with auto translate but they are not accurate lots of love from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳💞💞
I would just grit my teeth and move the asparagus for the sake of a season or two. If you don't you will regret it for the rest of your gardening life. I inherited asparagus that was most likely panted in the early 1900s and the area has slowly turned into a half shady area and of course I don't have the heart to take the chance and move it.
